GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

MERMAN EXPERIMENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Dec. !). The “Times" correspondent at Merlin states the Merman Post Office is experimenting with an apparatus designed to permit a general conversation with different subscribers, for example, hanks and big business, police m le.i'op ho i les and loud s,.ea.keis lephico mouth ami earpieces. All participants iu the discussion are connected through the Exchange and are enabled to hear everything. STEAMER SUNK. SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST. IQUIQUH (Chile), I-Ve. ft. At least seventeen persons were drowned when the Chilean si earner Quintero sank alter collision wilh the steamer America, off I’u.n La l’alehe. LONDON, December !). .Mrs Pitt Rivers shows a slight improvement,. MIIRNT TO DEATH. PINNED UNDER MOTOR OAR. PARIS, December S. There was an amazing scene ol horror in Quai I)’Austerlitz at. midnight when a merchant, Albert Clement, s motor car collided with a lorry and burst into flames. Clolimcnt was pinned down, but had the presence of mind to (ling from the window a wallet containing a large sum of money, lie was then burnt to death before the g;:,co of helpless hundreds. SLUMP AT CAN HERR. A. SYDNEY. Dec. 10. There is a regular slump in business in the Federal capital, and adjoining town of Queanboynii. Hundreds of men employed in tin? 'Federal capital works have been put off. 'The property boom in Queaifheyan, which captured the most business in recent years has hurst, and business people are lamenting. Canberra hotels, costly buildings, are not earning interest on the outlay. EGYPTIAN ARRESTS. CAIRO, Dee. !). The police yesterday quietly rounded up a bunch of Communist agitators headed by the Soviet Envoy, El’iahu, wile were specially entrusted with the task of restoring the campaign, which was nipped in the hud by similar aircsts in June. “ SAM WELLER” AND “DICKENS” IN COURT. LONDON, Dee. <>. Samuel Weller was the name, of a witness called for the defendant in a ease at Reading County Court to-day by 11. C. Dickens, a grandson of the novelist, counsel for the defence.